Overview

• Carmen Colado, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst, took the podium in uniform at a Dallas protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
• In a video that has gone viral, she decried President Trump’s deployment of troops as using soldiers as “pawns” and urged service members to stand by their moral obligations.
• The president previously ordered 4,000 National Guard personnel and 700 Marines to assist Los Angeles law enforcement in managing anti-ICE demonstrations.
• Conservative commentators swiftly called for Colado to face dishonorable discharge or a court-martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for her public dissent.
• Colado’s activism is informed by her personal history as the daughter of an undocumented immigrant who she credits with saving her life.